Magnolias are beautiful, very decorative trees - but they also cost a lot of money in specialist shops. If you or your neighbors or friends have a particularly beautiful specimen in the garden, you can grow such a tree yourself with its help (and a lot of patience). The following three methods are particularly suitable for this.
Grow magnolia from seed
Sometimes after flowering, magnolias produce fruits that contain seeds inside. You can harvest the ripe seeds and grow a young magnolia from them. The prerequisite, however, is that the seeds are initially stratified for a few months, i. H. stored airtight in moist sand in the refrigerator. Magnolias are cold or frost germs and can therefore not be planted immediately.
Propagation by sinkers
On the other hand, it is relatively easy (and more promising than propagation via seeds) to grow a young plant using sinkers. To do this, select one or more suitable shoots in July / August, which are inclined to the ground and buried there in the ground. The shoot remains on the mother plant until root formation is complete. However, this method requires a lot of patience: it takes at least a year to a year and a half before the branch can be separated and planted as an independent plant.
Propagating magnolia by mossing
Moss removal works particularly well with magnolias. To do this, select a young shoot that is no more than one centimeter thick and cut it into the bark about 20 to 30 centimeters below the tip with a sharp and clean knife. Hold the cut open with a piece of plastic or wood and wrap tightly with damp moss. Put a translucent and perforated plastic bag over it and tie the ends tightly. Keep the moss moist and the first roots will develop after about two to three months.
tips and tricks
Most trees and shrubs are usually propagated by cuttings. Unfortunately, experience has shown that this method, which is otherwise so successful for magnolias, works very poorly for magnolias - the cuttings tend to mold rather than form roots.